TAKEN

TAKEN TRAILER 
http://youtu.be/wCbDUREBwUg

So last night while I was procrastinating my homework my friends and I decided to pop in TAKEN. Now if you have never seen Taken the movie is about two young girls go off to Europe to enjoy themselves and get taken by European men, then sold into sex trafficking. Liam Neeson happens to be one of the girls fathers and kicks some European ass and ends up saving his daughter in the daughter. This has to be one of my most favorite movies, but unfortunately it has a very Americanized view on sex trafficking. Much of society believes that sex trafficking only occurs to white women in foreign countries just like Taken. Also I think just like the Tyra show we watched on Friday American movies dumb controversial topics down for the audience. For instance the end of the movie Liam Neeson saves his daughter from the bad foreign men that were trying to sell her. The movie has a happy ending. Sex trafficking in real life doesn't usually end happily in real life. In order for this to appeal to the public we believe that we have to show the happy side so that people won't feel as bad that this is going on. Yet it is good that we have Taken to expose the public to this kind of environment. The argument is that its better to have some kind of representation than nothing at all, but when does it become important what kind of representation it is? This is something our society needs to consider more.